Running and Clicking (eBook)

Future Narratives in Film

Sabine Schenk (Autor)

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2013
241 Seiten
De Gruyter (Verlag)
978-3-11-027243-7 (ISBN)

Infos

Running and Clicking examines how Future Narratives push against the confines of their medium: Studying Future Narratives in movies, interactive films, and other electronic media that allow for nodes, this volume demonstrates how the dividing line between film and game is progressively dissolved. Focused on traditional mass media, transitional media, and new media, it also touches on transmedial storytelling and virtual reality, discussions of the political power of the imaginary and of the possible fate of Future Narratives in the post-human hegemony of the simulated real.

Sabine Claudia Schenk, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany.

Autoren

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Sabine Claudia Schenk, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München.

Sabine Claudia Schenk, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany.

Inhalt

Acknowledgments 5
Preface 9
1 Concepts and Methodology 11
1.1 The Future in ‘Future Narratives’ 11
1.1.1 ‘No Future’ – Past Narratives 15
1.1.2 Mapping the Future 21
1.2 From ‘Running’ to ‘Clicking’ 49
2 ‘Running’ – FNs on Film 59
2.1 “Cinema is memory, it’s always part” – or is it? 59
2.2 ‘Film Futures’ and Mind-Games in Movies 63
2.3 ‘Running’ 75
2.3.1 Chance and Contingency in Tykwer’s Lola Rennt 76
2.3.2 Kieslowski’s Blind Chance – or ‘Take It Easy, Lola!’ 96
2.3.3 Artificiality and Complexity in Resnais’ Smoking / No Smoking 109
2.3.4 Parallel Streaming: Howitt’s Sliding Doors 119
2.3.5 The Big Crunch: Van Dormael’s Mr. Nobody 125
2.3.6 Game Over? – Jones’ Source Code 135
2.4 ‘Running’: The Recipient as Viewer 142
3 ‘Running’ and ‘Clicking’ 147
3.1 Beyond the Film Reel 147
3.1.1 DVD: Recipient as ‘Viewser’ 153
3.1.2 Television and Transmedia 160
3.1.2.1 FNs in TV Serials 160
3.1.2.2 ‘Reality TV’ 168
3.1.2.3 Is the Future LOST, Dina Foxx? 175
3.2 Hybrid FNs Between ‘Running’ and ‘Clicking’ 187
4 ‘Clicking’ – FNs in New Media 191
4.1 ‘Movie Game’ vs ‘Interactive Film’ 191
4.1.1 Heavy Rain as Movie Game 197
4.1.2 FNs and the Database: Korsakow Films and ‘Hypernarrative Interactive Cinema’ 202
4.2 ‘Clicking’: FNs and the User 211
5 Conclusion: FNs in Film and Their Future 213
Works Cited 219

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 29.10.2013
• Zusatzinfo: 8 b/w ill.
• Verlagsort: Berlin/Boston
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Essays / Feuilleton
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
• Schlagworte: Game • narrative • Play • Text
• ISBN-10: 3-11-027243-1 / 3110272431
• ISBN-13: 978-3-11-027243-7 / 9783110272437